[LargeFormat] Rome and Stieglitz

[Tim Atherton]

Why not just take the back off and carry it on? Build some kind of simple
protector for it? (Or get one of those "plexi" GG's?)

tim a

> -----Original Message-----
> From: largeformat-admin@f32.net [mailto:largeformat-admin@f32.net]On
> Behalf Of Brock Nanson
> Sent: March 18, 2002 9:54 PM
> To: largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Rome and Stieglitz
>
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> | The air trip was fine - things seem to have relaxed a little since I
> | travelled through Rome last October.  The single item of hand
> luggage rule
> | was applied fairly strictly though. Will have to revise my methods for
> | taking kit over to the US in September. Thinking that maybe a
> Pelican case
> | and using checked baggage is the way forwards.
>
> I took my Nikon gear back and forth to Australia 15 months ago... in a
> Pelican case, in the hold.  Some new scuffs on the case, but the gear came
> through OK.  I did, however, put a good padlock on the case to discourage
> any photographically (or criminally) inclined baggage handlers from
> borrowing any of the goodies inside.
>
> I haven't put 4x5 stuff in the hold yet.  I can't convince myself that the
> ground glass can survive any shocks, even in the foam.  Don't want to
> support the glass directly with the foam, for fear of snapping the glass
> with uneven pressures, but don't want to have it supported by
> just the edges
> either.  I'd be curious to hear what others have done in this regard.  Any
> foolproof ground glass protection ideas?
>
> Brock
>
>
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